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Influence - Robert B. Cadilini, PhD

In Influence , Robert Cadilini shares valuable insight on the many strategies used by salespeople to get you to buy something. He includes many examples, studies, and letters from readers. He also shares valuable tactics for countering these strategies.  The techniques discussed are very broad but are all based on one idea; people have fixed responses to certain things. Dr. Cadilini explores this in the first chapter by first describing this in animals. He then describes how this could occur in humans. Each chapter, starting with chapter two, has one strategy. I found the letters from readers to be very good examples.   However, I found that this book was harder to read than most of the other books that I have read. This book was harder to read for a few reasons. First, the book contained an excess of examples. I think that Dr. Cadilini could have made the points just as strong while using just half of the examples. Also, I think that the chapters had subtop...

Can we burn the American flag?

The short answer to this question is yes, you can legally burn the flag. Others might get mad at you and hurt you, but you are 100% allowed to burn the American flag. However, there have been amendments proposed to make it illegal to desecrate a flag in any way. The most recent one failed by one vote in 2006. The reason that many people think that it should be a crime to burn or deface the flag in any way is that people view flag burning in protest as a way of dishonoring the U.S. or saying, "America must die." However, many other people view it as symbolizing that America needs to change or that it has strayed from the path envisioned by our founding fathers. In order to get more opinions, I interviewed some kids at Peak to Peak. I got answers ranging from "People who burn flags should be jailed and given a cactus a day until they starve" to "They should be fined" along with answers like "Long live the King" and "No comment". The g...